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Robert W Plaster Foundation Inc at a glance

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Robert W Plaster Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$1.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$19MCommunity Improvement$312kYouth Development$135kCivil Rights$100kHealth$65kHousing & Shelter$65kFood & Nutrition$40kPublic Benefit$19kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $269k
  • $250k+7 grants · $3.4M
$250,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$74M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cedarville University$1,800,000
Park University (RWP Free Enterprise Center)$312,000
Concordia University - Wisconsin$292,000
Thomas More University Inc$267,000
College of Eastern Idaho Foundation$250,000
Southwest Baptist University$250,000
Prager University Foundation$250,000
North Greenville University$218,645
Park University (RWP School of Business)$50,000
River Oak Christian Academy$25,000
Bill of Rights Institute$25,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of Poplar Bluff$20,000
Laclede County Hughes Senior Organization$20,000
Watered Gardens$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Watered Gardens: $20k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
WI
MI
IA
OH
CA
MO
KY
VA
KS
SC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 15 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
13

Total granted

$15M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+43%

Still filing today

93%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $947k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyPublic BenefitHealthInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CU
    Cedarville University
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +24%
  • TM
    THOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $667k · revenue +27%
  • RT
    Ranken Technical College
    2× · 2022–2023 · $498k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • MF
    MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $600k · revenue -3%
  • OT
    Ozarks Technical Community College
    one grant, 2023 · $470k
  • LE
    LINDENWOOD EDUCATION SYSTEMgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $440k · revenue +44%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Nebraska Wesleyan University

Nebraska wesleyan university is an academic community dedicated to intellectual and personal growth within the context of a liberal arts education and in an environment of christian concern.

Education
2
John Brown University

John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…

Education
3
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
LaGrange College

Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…

Education
6
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
7
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
8
Union College

Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.

Education
9
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
10
Calvin University

The mission of calvin university is to equip students to think deeply, to act justly, and to live wholeheartedly as christ's agents of renewal in the world.

Education
11
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
12
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Columbia College; the most unlike its peers is The Battle Within Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
20/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cedarville University: $2,500,000 · EducationCedarville UniversityCOLUMBIA COLLEGE: $2,160,000 · EducationCOLUMBIA COLLEGEUMKC FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 · EducationUMKC FOUNDATIONHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $2,000,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGEPARK UNIVERSITY: $1,948,000 · EducationPARK UNIVERSITYCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC: $860,000 · EducationCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INCTHOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY INC: $667,000 · EducationMOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC: $600,000 · Education+8 more: $2,309,790 · Education+8 moreMOUNT MERCY COLLEGE: $600,000 · OtherMOUNT MERCY CO…Ozarks Technical Community College: $470,000 · OtherOzarks Technic…THREE RIVERS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIO: $420,000 · OtherTHREE RIVERS C…Park University (RWP Free Enterprise Center): $312,000 · OtherPark Universit…COLLEGE OF EASTERN IDAHO FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · OtherCOLLEGE OF EAS…Three Rivers Community College: $140,000 · OtherThree Rivers C…YOUTH ENTREPRENEUR OF KANSAS INC: $100,000 · OtherBill of Rights Institute: $100,000 · Other+7 more: $128,642 · OtherCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $1,080,000 · PhilanthropyCONCORDIA U…OZARKS TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $990,000 · PhilanthropyOZARKS TECH…VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $65,000 · Public BenefitTHE WARRIOR'S JOURNEY: $50,000 · ReligionWATERED GARDENS RESCUE MISSION: $20,000 · Human ServicesThe Battle Within Inc: $15,000 · Health
Education$15,044,790Other$2,520,642Philanthropy$2,070,000Public Benefit$65,000Religion$50,000Human Services$20,000Health$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCedarville University: $2,500,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCOLUMBIA COLLEGE: $2,160,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetUMKC FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $2,000,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPARK UNIVERSITY: $1,948,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $1,080,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetOZARKS TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $990,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC: $860,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY INC: $667,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC: $600,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRanken Technical College: $497,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLINDENWOOD EDUCATION SYSTEM: $440,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY: $437,290 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $360,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOLLEGE OF EASTERN IDAHO FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNorthwood University: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBill of Rights Institute: $100,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $65,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WARRIOR'S JOURNEY: $50,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetRIVER OAK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLACLEDE COUNTY HUGHES SENIOR ORGANIZATION: $20,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetWATERED GARDENS RESCUE MISSION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Battle Within Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetIPOURLIFE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPROJECT 360 YOUTH SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Charles Koch Foundati…Arvest FoundationBour Memorial Scholar…Missouri Colleges Fun…Virginia Thomas Chari…Michael & Susan Dell …National Collegiate A…Commerce Bancshares F…Bnsf Railway Foundati…Enterprise Holdings F…Greater Kansas City C…
Community Foundation of the Ozarks IncMO16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Charles Koch Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Bour Memorial Scholarship Fund American National Bank of Texas · Missouri Colleges Fund Inc · Virginia Thomas Charitable Trust · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Robert W Plaster Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert W Plaster Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Robert W Plaster Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Robert W Plaster Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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